Word: attica
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...pool, listening to the sounds made by bodies breaking water: "Cecrops! Inachus!" Perfectly good sounds, both of them; one can hear the upper body cutting through, then perhaps the legs flopping and hitting the surface: "Cecrops!" But the sounds are the names, respectively, of the first king of Attica and that of a river god who became first king of Argos...
...Cacoyannis (Stella) has attempted an adaptation of Euripides' Electra. Up to a point, the attempt excitingly succeeds. The performers, most notably Irene Papas, who interprets Electra, move with the dignity of figures in a ritual, speak with a largeness suggesting incantation. And the settings-a bucolic vale in Attica, the rude stump of the great palace at Mycenae-breathe a legendary grandeur...
...discoveries. For all the black talk of orgies, the boys and girls are sweetly innocent, fashioned with gentle care by artists of extraordinary talent. They sing of youth, not just that of individuals but of Western civilization itself-"the spring aroma," says Papadimitriou, "of the land of Attica...
...prelates chose soft-voiced Metropolitan Iakovos,* 68, of Attica and Megaris. Then, right after the election, an Athenian priest and a retired Greek admiral accused Iakovos of "unspeakable acts." Greece's leading newspapers called for the new primate to resign, and a committee was appointed to investigate the charge. Iakovos stubbornly accepted formal enthronement. "It is a blasphemy for me even to mention the word resignation," he said...
...Digging near the cucumber-and tomato-growing village of Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...